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Seems like everyone wants to add “disrupter” to their resume. Measuring up’s no cakewalk.
77 million dollars over seven years. That’s the payday for John Tavares, Toronto Maple Leaf’s newest wonder boy. For a team that last won a Stanley Cup when Canada turned 100 (1967, over half a century ago!), disruption doesn’t come cheap.
Your salary’s a pittance in comparison. Still, you fancy yourself a game changer too. Shaking things up. Stickhandling past dumbfounded defenders of “That’s not how we do things here.”

Pinpoint your competitive advantage, then power-drill it into the eyes of higher-ups.
Your coworkers are smarter and harder working than you. Those who aren’t, sometimes go Machiavelli – backstabbing, sabotaging, swindling and kissing up.
I’ve had to dive into that same swamp as an employee. I also found a legit way to make myself less disposable: find at least thing to contribute that leaves challengers begging for dregs.

Remember when Jimmy Kimmel’s "Mean Tweets" segment was an actual joke?
Was it the muse for Twitter to unfold as the official platform for slander?
The interpretation of free speech has taken on new meaning in the digital age.

A whole lot of us leave paid days off unused. Here are some useful tips for blowing your entire wad.
We’re sadly a nation of nay-cationers. 93% of Canadians say vacations are essential to happiness, says a study. Less than half of that use their full entitlement.

The beautiful game has its own special language. See what the oddball terms mean in everyday work-speak.
Hey hooligans. Lace up your boots (cleats) and cheer for football (soccer). It’s FIFA World Cup time! So whip out your vuvuzelas (noisemakers) and blow for your favourite team.
Like any sport, the beautiful game has a unique jargon; Panenka, Nutmeg, Kit, Yellow card. Which, when you think about it, is kind of like office-speak: obscure words in place of common ones. Which is why we’ve devised a translator. You’ll learn lots and have a chuckle or two. Now get out there with your magic spray and play with the golden ball!

What to do if you want to look back at your work history with pride instead of disappointment.
40 years – the average length of a career – is lots of time to amass regrets. Blown opportunities can pile up like stacks of empty boxes.

What you can do if staying home for that bracing year between.
School’s out, gap’s in. An entire year to fill after graduating. Bouncing abroad is so cliché. Like you don’t have loans the size of Canada’s debt anyway.

Work as a distributed ledger Developer, Systems Engineer, Product Manager, Miner and more in this emerging field.
People hear “Bitcoin” and ache to be billionaires. The tech behind such frothy cryptocurrencies is blockchain. It’s also for new commercial uses spawning jobs aplenty.

Fear the tears! We may work in kinder, gentler times with greater emphasis on personal and emotional balance, but the truth is boohooing at work may hold you back in your career. Unfortunately, it’ll have colleagues and managers questioning your capacity to keep your sh*t together.

Non-nerds can find excellent work in highly technical fields.
You’d rather chew glass than code. Linux, SQL and JavaScript are Martian for “scary.” You’re far from being a technophobe, but IT ain’t your cup of tea.

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